Tom Brevoort has revealed a failed former pitch for a Young Avengers team from 1989.

The pitch from Jim Valentino and Rob Liefeld was made 16 years before Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung's incarnation of the team first appeared.

The proposed team was to feature Namorita, Firestar, Vance Astro, Speedball, Richard Rider as Torpedo and two new characters to train under Rick Jones.

"At the time this was written in 1989, while both of them had dabbled in doing Marvel work, neither creator had really had a break-out hit," wrote Marvel's senior VP-executive editor on his Marvel.com blog.

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"Sharing a studio at the time, they hoped that Young Avengers might be it, with Jim writing and Rob illustrating a series they would co-plot.

"As it turned out, work was already under way on the book that eventually was entitled New Warriors, which prevented this incarnation of Young Avengers from moving ahead.

"It's actually pretty extraordinary to see how close the line-up for what Jim and Rob proposed was to the eventual New Warriors team."

The pair went on to create youthful superheroes including Shadowhawk and the X-Force and Youngblood teams.